SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW FRANCE
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He sailed between New France and France 20 times.
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He was a mapmaker
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He is said to be the founder of Quebec
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He was born in France
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was key to French expansion in the New World. Known as the “Father of New France, ” Champlain founded Quebec (1608), one of the oldest cities in what is now Canada, and consolidated French colonies. He also made important explorations of what is now northern New York, the Ottawa River, and the eastern Great Lakes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel de Champlain is appropriately called the “Father of New France”, because he nurtured the colonization of Canada through its failures, setbacks and successes. The French plans to colonize North America, in 1603, differed from the common practiced policies of colonization.
Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel de Champlain was a man of colossal scope-soldier, explorer, cartographer, writer and tireless promoter of the colony of New France. As part of the early wave of Europeans who encountered Canada’s First Peoples, he charted coasts and waterways unknown in Europe. the expansion of France into the New World.
Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel de Champlain (sometimes called Samuel Champlain in English documents) was born at Brouage, in the Saintonge province of Western France, about 1570.